Evidence map›Paper›PMID 20235222›Full record

ArticleGlia2010

Astrocyte targeted overexpression of Hsp72 or SOD2 reduces neuronal vulnerability to forebrain ischemia.

Lijun Xu, John F Emery, Yi-Bing Ouyang, Ludmila A Voloboueva, Rona G Giffard

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Article in Glia, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 73 papers.

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73citing papers in PubMed
5.6field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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73 citing papers in PubMed, 107 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lijun XuDepartment of Anesthesia, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305-5117, USA.
John F Emery
Yi-Bing Ouyang
Ludmila A Voloboueva
Rona G Giffard
Stanford University · US

Funding

ANESTHETICS AND STRESS PROTEINS IN BRAIN CELL INJURYR01GM049831 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI GIFFARD, RONA G · 1993 to 2011
$4.1M
Astrocytes and Ischemic Brain InjuryR01NS053898 · NINDS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI GIFFARD, RONA G · 2007 to 2016
$3.8M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM49831NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM049831NINDS NIH HHS NS053898NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS053898
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Brief forebrain ischemia is a model of the delayed hippocampal neuronal loss seen in patients following cardiac arrest and resuscitation. Previous studies demonstrated that selective dysfunction of hippocampal CA1 subregion astrocytes occurs hours to days before delayed neuronal death. In this study we tested the strategy of directing protection to astrocytes to protect neighboring neurons from forebrain ischemia. Two well-studied protective proteins, heat shock protein 72 (Hsp72) or superoxide dismutase 2 (SOD2), were genetically targeted for expression in astrocytes using the astrocyte-specific human glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) promoter. The expression constructs were injected stereotacticly immediately above the hippocampal CA1 region on one side of the rat brain two days prior to forebrain ischemia. Cell type specific expression was confirmed by double label immunohistochemistry. When the expression constructs were injected two days before transient forebrain ischemia, the loss of CA1 hippocampal neurons observed seven days later was significantly reduced on the injected side compared with controls. This neuroprotection was associated with significantly better preservation of astrocyte glutamate transporter-1 immunoreactivity at 5-h reperfusion and reduced oxidative stress. Improving the resistance of astrocytes to ischemic stress by targeting either the cytosolic or mitochondrial compartment was thus associated with preservation of CA1 neurons following forebrain ischemia. Targeting astrocytes is a promising strategy for neuronal preservation following cardiac arrest and resuscitation.

Indexed as

AnimalsAstrocytesBrain IschemiaCA1 Region, HippocampalCell HypoxiaCells, CulturedExcitatory Amino Acid Transporter 2Glial Fibrillary Acidic ProteinHSP72 Heat-Shock ProteinsHumansMaleMiceNeuronsOxidative StressPromoter Regions, GeneticProsencephalonExcitatory Amino Acid Transporter 2Glial Fibrillary Acidic ProteinHSP72 Heat-Shock ProteinsSuperoxide DismutaseSuperoxide Dismutase 2

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PMID20235222
PMCPMC3108566
OpenAlexW2026741596

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